Letter to the editor...
Dear Editor,
My name is Dawn Huff. I volunteered to serve on the pool committee to determine if we should move forward on providing a municipal pool for our town. We were asked to find out the cost and options available, as well as if there was a need. There were ten persons that regularly attended the meetings for two and half years. We looked at every aspect from remodel, to moving, size and repair. I personally visited twelve municipal pools and made contact with over twenty pool managers or city park and street people from three states. We conducted an online and hardcopy survey, we contacted several contractors. I personally sent flash drives of possible sites, and sixty plus pictures of the existing facility for feedback from aquatic contractors. I have read in the paper multiple times that the cost of a new pool vs replacement is about the same, I question where that information is coming from. The quotes I saw
(these are not bids) were about
500,000 to 1 million in difference concerning stay vs move with moving being considerably more depending on soil, water conditions and codes. THE
INFRASTURCURE OF THE
EXISTING POOL FACILITY
(THE PUMP, CHEMICAL INFUSERS, FILTERS, BACKWASH SYSTEM, PLUMBING, PARKING, LIGHTING,
BATHHOUSE, FENCHING,
AND CONCRETE WORK)
ARE ALL IN WORKING
CONDITION AND UP TO
CODE. The pool was closed because it was losing water, we have now determined due to multiple changes/upgrades/remodels over the years to comply with codes and the fact that the pool vessel (the part that holds the water) is 83 years old the concrete is fatigued unable to hold a seal in places where the floor meets the wall in the shallow end thus loosing several gallons of water a day. So the least costly and best use of resources would be to replace the
11,200 square foot pool vessel
(the part that holds water) with a smaller 4,500 square foot vessel and a new footprint that has zero entry, hook up and calibrate our existing infrastructure add in the bells and whistles and your back in business. BUT
SHOULD WE EVEN MOVE
FORWARD WITH A POOL?
All ten members of the pool committee that regularly met went into this task determined to reopen a pool for our city, now from feedback of those persons I believe 7 out of 10 do not think it is the thing to do any longer. I question it myself based on the following:
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